"Working 9 to 5 is a way to make a living. But in Silicon Valley, amid the competitive artificial intelligence craze, grinding “996” is the way to get ahead. Or at least to signal to those around you that you’re taking work seriously. The number combo refers to a work schedule — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — that has its origins in China’s hard-charging tech scene. In 2021, a Chinese high court barred employers from compelling employees to…“ 1/
#AlexThuReading
„[…] we want you to think deeply about where you place human judgement in the decision making processes that are digital systems. Comprehension is not a nice to have. It is the scaffolding that makes safety, accountability, and learning possible. Without it, you are not engineering; you are relying on belief. By removing the conditions for comprehension under which mistakes can be understood, corrected, and learned from, you…“ 1/
https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-ca3ad1e612d8
„Problems arise when this is treated as the end stage. In terms of the metaphor of the Master and his emissary, the Master realises the need for an emissary to do certain work on his behalf (which he, the Master, must not involve himself with) and report back to him. That is why he appoints the emissary in the first place. The emissary, however, knowing less than the Master, thinks he knows everything and considers himself…“ 1/
„Finally, some people feel that I have gone 'well beyond the facts', that I have somehow simply 'gone too far'. […] My experience has been that, where this objection has been made, the problem lies in my having dared to link brain science with the history of ideas. This may simply express a discomfort felt by too many scientists at 'straying' into the realms of philosophy and cultural history. But until about seventy years ago, scientists would have been educated in, and…“ 1/
"AI is hurting you at work (but it doesn't have to)"
https://techwerkers.nl/en/resources/ai-is-hurting-you-at-work/
„When speed becomes the measure of performance it governs the way we experience our lives as well as the quality of our lives. Speed becomes a reason to settle for lower quality and ignore our desires. A friend, Meg Wheatley, told me about a poet who agreed to publish a poem on a very tight deadline. When she asked how he could do that, he said, "All I have to do is lower my standards."“
(Peter Block in „The Answer To How Is Yes“)
„So, we know that if we don't get our relatedness needs met, we will lose motivation for our work, and it will mean less to us. The point of starting here is to recenter the conversation: literally thousands of studies show those are outcomes worth pursuing all for themselves. Full stop. The happy news is we've also gotten confirmation from recent research that there are rich and hard-edged links between these findings and skill: no healthy…“ 1/
„Experts have a different problem: they fail to reflect. This is the blindness that comes with the "seen one, seen 'em all" phenomenon: after a while, if you've got solid skill, it's all too easy to fit your mental models onto most any complexity to predict what's coming.“
„… with. Another cupful of techno-gas on the skills bonfire.“
„We are writing now, in late 2024, from the inside of what feels like the height of the AI hype bubble. As we say on the podcast [Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000]: each time we think we've reached peak AI hype-the summit of bullshit mountain—we discover there's worse to come. We're using what we see in this bubble to document the contours of hype about Al, its causes and its short- and long-term effects. Our primary goal is to inhibit the next tech bubble. We…“ 1/
„Wer Fehler gemacht hat, wird für seinen Mut gelobt, aber zur Reflexion aufgefordert, wie er zukünftig bessere Ergebnisse erzielen kann. Denn nur, wer auch einmal Fehler machen darf, traut sich zu, Verantwortung für sich und sein Handeln zu übernehmen.“
„Lernen auf Vorrat ist sinnlos.“
„We see unsophisticated, inexperienced kindergartners, and we find it difficult to imagine that they would combine to produce a successful performance. But this illusion, like every illusion, happens because our instincts have led us to focus on the wrong details. We focus on what we can see—individual skills. But individual skills are not what matters. What matters is the interaction.“
„Begriffe sind Ideen, Unternehmer sind Gärtner.“
(„Words are ideas, business operators are gardeners.“)
(Götz W. Werner)
„Menschen wie Menschen zu behandeln, mag für viele nur ein Spleen sein. Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass Wirtschaft keinen anderen Zweck verfolgt: miteinander füreinander tätig sein. Die Wertbildungsrechnung spiegelt dieses Bewusstsein und beweist, dass nicht nur die Maschinen, sondern auch die Zahlen den Menschen dienen statt sie zu knebeln und zu knechten.“
Hi @ufried
I am currently reading your latest post on „AI and the ironies of automation“ (https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2).
What popped up in my mind while reading is the post by @mcc on the aspect of „almost correct code":
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114321812582398229
👋 , Alex
"But I thought things should be in one place!? Yes, but that one place is the codebase - not this one big object.“
(@kevlinhenney, Craft Conf 2021)
"If red chips are given to you when you make a statement and blue chips when you ask a question, you should make sure that in the end you are not the guy with only red chips in hand.“
(@Michaelcarducci, Craft Conf 2021)
"Devleopers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame - frequently with the same result - Neal Ford"
(@Michaelcarducci, Craft Conf 2021)
"If my tests never failed, either my programming is perfect or my tests are inadequate.
I know which way I'd bet.“
(@mfowler - https://x.com/martinfowler/status/1400508219508805632)
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